Tooth eruption in the bone-grafted maxillary cleft alveolus.
The alveolar defect remaining after the repair of cleft lip and palate presents an aesthetic problem in the maxillary dental arch. Often the lateral incisor is missing or deformed. There are several prosthetic solutions to the problem. However, here a method is presented, of bone grafting and then orthodontically positioning the erupting maxillary canine into the defect, in selected cases.
D000293:Adolescent; D000543:Alveoloplasty / Q000379:methods*; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002648:Child; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery; D003481:Cuspid / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D014078:Tooth Eruption; D014087:Tooth Movement Techniques